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Crisis and the US Avant-Garde: poetry and real politics

By Louis , Baraka , Amiri; Hickman , Ben; Olson , Charles; Rukeyser , Muriel; Zukofsky

Book information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780748682850, 9780748682867, 9780748682874, 0748682856
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1428573 bytes)
Pages
200 p.; 24 cm\208
Time added
2020-11-29 04:15:18

Description

Crisis and the US Avant-Garde examines the politics of poetry through the lens of crisis. A timely commentary on the role poetic culture might play in political struggle going forward into our own various contemporary crises, the book connects major twentieth-century poets and movements, including Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka and Language Poetry, with their various moments of political upheaval. Reading poems as attempted interventions in turning-points or moments of decision within American culture, Crisis and the US Avant-Garde looks at how poetry seeks to go beyond poetic language, and investigates how experimental American poetry has attempted to responds to imperialism, war, class conflict and capitalism itself.

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